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Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by Sniffnoy on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @02:00PM (#18393906)
Agreed. That said, if you're interested in pushing something that is better than IRV and that people will actually use, I'd suggest approval voting (or possibly range voting or STAR). I don't really expect the Scholze method to ever see wide adoption.

Basically, I suggest pushing approval voting over other methods for realistic cases.

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Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by xvedejas on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @02:56PM (#18394380)
My favorite for single winner elections is range voting with top-2 runoff, actually. But I at least find all of these to be acceptable. Whether or not the trade-offs of range / approval voting vs condorcet methods are better seems to depend on whether you think of utility as an ordinal or a cardinal thing.
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